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== Mycro Camera Co., Ltd. ==
 
'''Mycro Camera Co., Ltd.''' was a Japanese camera maker in the first half of the 1950s, based in Tokyo, Setagaya.<REF> Its address was No.711, 1-chome Setagaya, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. Source: English user manual for the Mycro IIIA reproduced in Awano, p.7 of {{CCN}} no.276. </REF> Its name is engraved on the late [[Mycro|Mycro IIIA]] and appears in the camera's English user manual.<REF> English user manual for the Mycro IIIA reproduced in Awano, p.7 of {{CCN}} no.276. </REF> It was perhaps the successor of [[Akita|Akita Seisakusho]], and perhaps made others models of the [[Mycro]] series in the postwar period.
 
'''Mycro Camera Co., Ltd.''' was a Japanese camera maker in the first half of the 1950s, based in Tokyo, Setagaya.<REF> Its address was No.711, 1-chome Setagaya, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. Source: English user manual for the Mycro IIIA reproduced in Awano, p.7 of {{CCN}} no.276. </REF> Its name is engraved on the late [[Mycro|Mycro IIIA]] and appears in the camera's English user manual.<REF> English user manual for the Mycro IIIA reproduced in Awano, p.7 of {{CCN}} no.276. </REF> It was perhaps the successor of [[Akita|Akita Seisakusho]], and perhaps made others models of the [[Mycro]] series in the postwar period.
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== Mycro Camera Co., Inc. ==
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'''Mycro Camera Co., Inc.''', a different company based in New York, was perhaps the importer of the [[Mycro]] camera into the United States. Its name has been observed on the original box of a [[Mycro|Mycro I]] dating from the late 1940s or early 1950s.<REF> Camera with original box observed in an online auction. </REF>
  
 
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Revision as of 15:36, 17 August 2008

Mycro Camera Co., Ltd.

Mycro Camera Co., Ltd. was a Japanese camera maker in the first half of the 1950s, based in Tokyo, Setagaya.[1] Its name is engraved on the late Mycro IIIA and appears in the camera's English user manual.[2] It was perhaps the successor of Akita Seisakusho, and perhaps made others models of the Mycro series in the postwar period.

Mycro Camera Co., Inc.

Mycro Camera Co., Inc., a different company based in New York, was perhaps the importer of the Mycro camera into the United States. Its name has been observed on the original box of a Mycro I dating from the late 1940s or early 1950s.[3]

Notes

  1. Its address was No.711, 1-chome Setagaya, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. Source: English user manual for the Mycro IIIA reproduced in Awano, p.7 of Camera Collectors' News no.276.
  2. English user manual for the Mycro IIIA reproduced in Awano, p.7 of Camera Collectors' News no.276.
  3. Camera with original box observed in an online auction.

Bibliography

  • Awano Mikio (粟野幹男). "Maikuro sengohen (2)" (マイクロ戦後編[2], Mycro postwar edition [2]). In Camera Collectors' News no.276 (May 2000). Nishinomiya: Camera Collectors News-sha.